Twrch Trwyth

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: This question of linguistic change will be found further illustrated by the story to which I wish now to pass, namely that of the hunting of Twrch Trwyth (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "This question of linguistic change will be found further illustrated by the story to which I wish now to pass, namely that of the hunting of Twrch Trwyth."

• attestation: He tried to snatch one of the three precious articles from Twrch Trwyth, but he only succeeded in securing one of his bristles, whereupon the Twrch stood up and shook himself so vigorously that a drop (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "He tried to snatch one of the three precious articles from Twrch Trwyth, but he only succeeded in securing one of his bristles, whereupon the Twrch stood up and shook himself so vigorously that a drop of venom from his bristles fell on Menw, who never enjoyed a day's health afterwards as long as he lived."

• attestation: Twrch Trwyth came to land at Forth Clais, a small creek south of St (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Twrch Trwyth came to land at Forth Clais, a small creek south of St."

• attestation: That is the story of Twrch Trwyth, and Dr (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "That is the story of Twrch Trwyth, and Dr."

• attestation: In the next place we can practically equate Twrch Trwyth with a name at the head of one of the articles in Cormac's Irish Glossary (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "In the next place we can practically equate Twrch Trwyth with a name at the head of one of the articles in Cormac's Irish Glossary."

• attestation: Nevertheless, the editor of the Twrch Trwyth story did not know it; but it would be in no way surprising that a Welshman, who knew his language fairly well, should be baffled by such a word in case it (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Nevertheless, the editor of the Twrch Trwyth story did not know it; but it would be in no way surprising that a Welshman, who knew his language fairly well, should be baffled by such a word in case it was not in use in his own district in his own time."

• attribution: But the capital instance in the story of Twrch Trwyth as has already been indicated is that of Amanw, which I detect also as Ammann (probably to be re (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "But the capital instance in the story of Twrch Trwyth as has already been indicated is that of Amanw, which I detect also as Ammann (probably to be read Atnmanu^ in the Book of Lan Ddv (or Liber Landavensis\ p. 199: it is there borne by a lay witness to a grant of land called Tir Dimuner, which would appear to have been in what is now Monmouthshire."

• attestation: I cannot help suggesting, with great deference, that the place whence came the Men of ILydaw in the story of the hunting of Twrch Trwyth was the settlement in Syfadon lake (p (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "I cannot help suggesting, with great deference, that the place whence came the Men of ILydaw in the story of the hunting of Twrch Trwyth was the settlement in Syfadon lake (p. 73), and that the name of that stronghold, whether it was a crannog or a stockaded islet, was also ILydaw."

• comparison: Lastly, our information as to the hunting of Twrch Trwyth is not exclusively derived from the Kulhwch, for besides an extremely obscure poem about the Twrch in the Book of Anettrm, a manuscript of the (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Lastly, our information as to the hunting of Twrch Trwyth is not exclusively derived from the Kulhwch, for besides an extremely obscure poem about the Twrch in the Book of Anettrm, a manuscript of the thirteenth century, we have one item given in the Mirabilia associated with the Hisloria Briltonum of Nennius, § 73, and this carries us back to the eighth century."